Adeian janes



ADRIAN JANES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

APPARATUS FOR HEATING- AIR BY HOT WATER.

Specification of Letters Patent No.'7,054, dated January 29, 1850.

T0 all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ADRIAN JANEs, of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in the Construction of Apparat-us for Heating Buildings, and that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the principle or character which distinguishes them from all other things before known and of the usual manner of making, modifying, and using the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l, is a side elevation; Fig. 2, a plan; Fig. 3, is a section representing the union box detached.

My improvement consists in the peculiar construction, combination and arrangement of a cluster of pipes for heating the surrounding air by the passage of hot water through them.Y Great difficulty has been experienced in the practical application of water as a heating agent for heating buildings, on many accounts; first, the great expense when the water was carried through the rooms, as well as the disiigurement of them by the introduction of pipes. Secondly, when the water was only employed to heat the air in a chamber to be distributed throughout the house, the pipe has been coiled or bent into very great lengths and of a small diameter; this is found to be inefficient and unequal in its action; thefwater gets too cool before it leaves the apparat-us, which of itself is very ditlicult to construct or repair. By my form of construction I have endeavored to correct these inconveniences, and have succeeded in producing a simple, cheap, and permanent apparatus for heating buildings, that can be easily managed, and is not liable to derangement, or subject to want repair. I need not enlarge upon the advantages of heating by hot water, rather than by the directapplication o/f fire, as it is now so universally admitted.

The construction is as follows: A number of pipes are placed or cast close together, and form a gang, several of which gangs are placed side by side, and form a cluster, which are inclosed in a nonconducting chamber into which external air is admitted, and from which it is drawn after being heated. This, however being like those devices already in use, no further describtion is requisite. To form a gang, any'number of straight pipes desired are united at their ends in a parallel plane by what I denominate gang ends (C), which are hollow trunks or pipes, with as many sockets on one side of each as there are pipes in the gang, and on the other side there is an outlet or an inlet pipe, according to the end of the gang on which they are placed, as will be presently described. Any number of gangs thus constructed, and each perfect in itself, are placed side by side to form a cluster of the desired magnitude. These are all connected at one end of the vertical end pieces, near the top, by what I denominate a union box D, having as many connecting pipes and flanches to form joints with the end pieces as there are gangs in the cluster; at the opposite end of the gangs there is another box (D,) of the same construction, ailixed to the gang ends near the bottom; thewhole cluster is thus united into one; from the upper union box to the boiler at the furnace a communication is opened by means of a connecting pipe A, called the flow pipe; and from the other box, D, a

return pipe B, extends back to the boiler G,

(this is clearly represented in Fig. l.) The water, when heated in the boiler, flows through the pipe A, to the union-box D, from whence it is distributed to the pipes in the several gangs through their ends, and thence back to the boiler by the return pipe B. The circulation isthus properly kept up throughout.

I-Iaving thus fully described my improved apparatus, what I claim therein as new, and for which I desire to secure Letters Patent, is

The peculiar construction and arrangement of the heating apparatus by uniting the series of straight horizontal pipes into gangs, by vertical end pieces, C, through which the circulating water is conveyed to all the pipes in the gang in combination with the union boxes D, D', the series of gangs forming the cluster being united at one end at the top of the end pieces by the union box D and at the opposite end, at the bottom by asimilar box, D through which the water circulates to all the pipes, by means of a How and return pipe, connected with the boiler or heater at the furnace, as herein clearly specified.

ADRIAN J ANES.

Vitnesses G. GAY, WM. GREENOUGH. 

